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funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off peopleSat, 28 Mar 2015 16:59:29 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8By: Haribo Lectorhttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-492289
Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:16:43 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-492289Todd and Briana need to take the hint.
]]>By: Haribo Lectorhttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-492288
Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:16:01 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-492288That’s the point, Kermit; they’ve made it clear that privacy settings don’t mean anything. They haven’t been ambiguous about it in the slightest, and have communicated that fact to everyone; so now if you post stuff you don’t want anyone to know about, the responsibility is yours.
]]>By: Coffeehttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476245
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:46:15 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476245what’s the Facebook replacement of the month? Google+ or something?
]]>By: Coffeehttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476244
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:42:29 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476244oh, I forgot to change from Anonymous since a previous comment I made might have gotten me in trouble at work because it was regarding products we sell.
]]>By: Nocturnesthesiahttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476240
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:23:24 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476240Don’t read the terms/conditions or configure privacy settings, post videos of yourself projectile vomiting during a nude keg stand and statuses about committing various criminal offenses, then blame teh evul corporations when it bites you in the ass. Unfortunately, I have met plenty of supposedly intelligent grad students who see nothing wrong with this line of reasoning.
]]>By: H for Toyhttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476228
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:00:15 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476228I’d never allow anyone to harm a hair on your pretty green head, kermit. But if we get him drunk enough, and keep the guns locked up, we might just snag that pen!
]]>By: The Elfhttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476211
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:37:26 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476211Awwwww, thanks!

P.S. (The check is in the mail, as agreed.)

]]>By: Lythandehttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476183
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 05:50:12 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476183So what’s it called if you echnically have a Facebook profile but ignore your friends on there, too? Golly I suck with people.
]]>By: FeRDhttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476174
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 03:30:30 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476174@T’Elf: The current audience and scoping controls are for the most part pretty straightforward, I agree. (Now that it’s been through a dozen or so iterations, slowly homing in on the right balance of functionality and complexity.) Anyone who’s not completely stupid should be able to get a handle on them without TOO much melted brain matter leaking out their ear.

…One tiny problem, though: Most people are stupid. :-/

(Especially when it comes to computer interfaces. They go all deer-in-headlights at the slightest hint of complexity. Mostly because they refuse to learn anything about how and why the underlying mechanisms work the way they do, even though that’s the single most effective path to developing a proper understanding of how the controls actually function.)

They’re remarkably easy to use for you, because you’re remarkably smart and tend to be able to understand such things.

]]>By: kermithttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476171
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 01:55:30 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476171Also, is this Vegas in February thing just a fiendish and nefarious ploy to get Dick Cheney to shoot me in the face if I try to take his fountain pen?
]]>By: kermithttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476170
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 01:53:42 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476170H, I’m not offended at all. There’s a difference between real friends and FB “friends”. If you really want your real life friends to come join you someplace, you call/text them to make sure they get the message. Who the hell are these people that check FB all damn day, like it’s their retirement portfolio?

If you want to sorta maybe chill with your FB “friends” you post a FB message and don’t really care who (if anyone) shows up.

Red –
The whole sales gimmick of FB over old services like Myspace is that they constantly told people that privacy settings meant that they had control over who saw what information. In the early days, the exclusivity of the service solely to college/grad students made this privacy thing very clear.

You may not care about privacy settings, but a lot of people do. (And let’s face it, you do care about privacy because otherwise you’d be posting with your real name and your real email address instead of one you just set up for on-line commenting).

]]>By: mittehttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476162
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:57:51 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476162Mostly the people it wasn’t aimed at in the first place. Oh but if facebook lasts long enough, they’ll be back for the “vintage” feel of it.
]]>By: mittehttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476160
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:55:20 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476160Same here. You and I should be friends!
]]>By: redheadwglasseshttp://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2013/09/11/anti-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-476152
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:44:39 +0000http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=25429#comment-476152Also, by posting a last-minute “invitation” on FB, you reach a bunch of people all at once. Calling 10-30 friends would be rather onerous.
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